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Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
these should be the teachers task in

these should be the teachers task in
schools or colleges.
Probably niae.tenths Of the younger
pupils and large proportion Of the elder
students study to pass the examinations,
and have hardly any other object in
view. The marking system is largely to
blame for this. The pupils know they
have to have 50 many marks to pass, to
be able to advance with their comrades,
and to that end they work. SO the par
rot who can repeat without understand
ing. the memorizer who can recite
thoughtlessly what stands in the books,
proceed in triumph, while the actual
student who has been trying to under
stand to make the subject under consid.
Grafton part of his mental equipment,
falls behind in his class. Every teacher
of experience knows this to be fact.
Thus the marking system is an injustice
ns we'll as injurious to mental develop.
ment. And 1t is quite needless. An in
structor knows, if he understands his
business at all. where each one of his
pupils belong in the scale. He cannot
help becoming familiar with the mental
fiber of each of those under his care, and
unconsciously he will grade them accord.
ing to this knowledge OF them.
Teachers are always embarrassed by
examination papers. Here is a notori-
ously negligent pupil with paper in
which all the questions are correctly an
swered. He is certain that unfair means
have been resorted to to attain this result,
but he can not prove that such is the fact
perhaps. What is to be doneg II ne marks
him according to the paper an injustice
is done the honest workers, if ne marks
him according to his real requirements
he discredits his own system, and the ag-
gricved pupil can come forward with a
protest which he can not very well ig
more.
The marking system should be abol
ished in colleges and In the higher
schools, and students should be made to
feel that they are working to equip them.
selves for the actual struggle of life. fol-
rounding out and completing their own
personalities, and not to pass the exami
nations merely.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
POLITICAL POINTS.

Among republicans In Ten nessee, there Is
NJ antagonism to Mr. Sherman whatever.
Judge Thurman is physically unable to take
the stump for the democratic ticket in Ohio
this year.
The louisville (Ky.) Commercial (rep)
says that in that city many have noticed
considerable changes from Blaine to Sher-
man in the past few weeks.
Caldwell is the place selected for Foraker
to deliver his first speech in the Ohio cam
paign. Hayes opened the campaign Of 1873
and Garfield that Of 1879 there.
Buffalo business men have invited ErastuS
Wiman and Benjamin Butterworth to dis
cuss the Canadian commercial union ques.
ton In that city on September 1.
Mr.. Foster, eX-mlniSter of Madrid, COIN
cides with otner well-infOrmed observers that
Indiana will 80 republican next year whom
soever the party nominate for president.
Congressman Brumm. tho greonback-re-
publican from Pennsylvania, says Mr..
Blaines friends do not look with fear upon
the outcome of another defensive campaign.
When Ohio goes for free trade Michigan
will probably be ready to vote to return the
rebel flags, with An apology for ever having
taken a hand in the union war against the
rebellion.
Speaking about the disgrace which Senator
Rddleberger has brought on Virginia
naturally suggests the disgrace which
senator out of him.
Nomination to Office is the greatest of all
public functions But that is just the depart.
ment of politics in which the people are
weakest, il they have not been reduced to
positive insignifcance.
Governor Rusk, Of Wisconsin, wants II
understood that the alleged interviews with
him saying that his state delegation will
support him for president or vice president
in the next republican national convention
are false.
The San Francisco Bulletin (rep.), claim
ing that 1t does not know whether Mr..
Blaine will be candidate next year, ex-
presses the belief that "there will be fairer
field for all republican candidates in 1883
than there has been since 1S72."
The Philadelphia Record Qnd) calls the
platform of the Pennsylvania republicans "a
strange mixture of shrewdness and incapa-
city," ''Its shrewdness." the Record ex-
plains, Consists In the avoidance of real
issues; its incapaclty, in foolish lnyeracity
and childishneSs OF statement"
AT the recent vote III utaii on lne Molihoh
constitution Is, 372 ballots were caSt.Of which
Il, SS7 were Tor the constitution. The Gen
tiles refrainsd from voting. Yet the Salt
Lake Herald (Mormon) says: "The people
have the right to expect that their appeals for
justice and full citizenship will be granted
and statehood conferred upon the territory"
All the Philadelphia delegates to the Penn
syyania republican convention received cir
cuiars inclosing tickets to Harrisburg and
return. The circulars were signed with the
name William B Hart, but as that gentle
man Is n candidate for state treasurer, 1t Is
suggested that some enemy OF his must have
made use OF his name In the transaction.
| Saws the New York Sun: hon. john
Sherman is coming to New York when hc
comes back from, Alaska. Having got a
technical or putative possession o. the Buck
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28

THE rush to Europe this season has
been unparalleled, The trans. Atlantic
steamers have been unable to accommo-
date all who wished to cross the ocean
and many have already engaged passage
for 1888. This exodus has become rage,
craze and is as ,nohsensical as most
crazcs are. In the = first place a large
part of those who spend their vacation
or leisure in this way are unacquainted
with their own country, and in the
second they are taxing an immense
amount of money out of the circulation
at home and adding it to that of foreig gn
countries. The sum spent abroad this
season will probably not be far from
$lO0, 200, 900. There is no adequate re-
turn for this outlay. The manner IN
which American tourists spend their time
and money abroad is almost as profitless
as it can be-. They rush from one place
to another, are always tired, and always
In hurry, almost always discontented
with the present situation and therefore
anxious to 60 forward to some more
satisfactory place. From almost any
point Of view this craze in 70 be depre'
Gated.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
CURRENT TOPICS

CURRENT TOPICS.
Jay Gould's grandson is said to be already
crying for railroad 70 play with.
**x
The oyster which has been spending his
vacation at the seaside Is now about to re-
turn.
San Francisco is lso to have statue of
liberty. The CalifOrnians who are in the
grip of the cOnfederated mOnopolies think 1t
would be better TO have more liberty and less
statues.
~
A large shipment of arms and ammunition
from San Francisco to Honolulu was made
last week. Here Is another outfit for the toy
gun market.
Rev. Father Cronin, of Buffalo, who has
just returned from England, thinks that the
house of commons has the brains and the
house of lords the fat of the British parli a.
ment.
The inhabitants of New Ulm, Minn., last
week celebrated the twenty-tifth anniversary
of the successful defense of the city against
the attack of the Sioux in 1862. The story of
the massacre already reads like a murky
romance of centuries ago.
NV
The Prison Mirror Is the name of paper
published by convicts In the Minnesota peni.
tentiary. The most prominent editorial In
the copy which reached us Is headed $50
Slow" This is good advice in various senses.
For one thing that is the best way of main :
tanning the lock step intact.
%*x
The Nero type of physiognomy. says an
American naturalist is becoming frequent
among the members of wealthy clubs In the
large cities. This is quite reasonable, fol-
these men are following pursuits similar to
those in which the tyrant ntindulged-the graft
fication of their senses.
x*x
A statue to CuanhOtOmoc, the last of the
Aztec emperors, was unveiled in the City Of
Mexico last week. A significant fact in con-
nection with the ceremony wNs the small
number of Msxicans Of Spanish Aescent who
were present and the large number Of Indian
descendants. The event shows that the latter
still cherish the memories OF their patriotic
ancestors.
NV
Thomas Davidson, who has been perusi ne
the manuscript of Ignatius Donnelly's work
on the Bacon-Shakspeare controversy, has
come 10 the conclusion tnat IN lew years
the plays OF the bard of Avon will bt
familiarly called the works of Bacon. So
| here seems to be another convert There Il
| one consolation in connection with this dis
pute that should not be lost sight olive still
| have the plays.
x*x
Evolution is said to be at work upon thu
tail of the modern dress coat and 1t may have
| to go. The startling infor nation comes
from the east that young society men have
| been seen in evening coats OF brilliant color
but abbreviated tails. From scle ntilic poin
of view this seems satisfactory enough, bu
the innovation must strike the drawlin
wearer with chill What il evolution
should attack and dispose OF him next?
! ~
"Blind Tom," the negro musical pheHome
| non, who has been the subject OF much IN
CATION of late has returned to New York II
company with his mother Charity Virgins
| and Mrs. Bethune, his newly appointed
guardian. lie is now thirty mine years ole
and has been before the public about thirty
four years. lie is fat but has not lost. any
OF his old time power OF mimicry. The eponi
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28

THE Kukas. q secret society in India,
is giving the English government in the
east some anxiety. 1t Is feared that an
uprlsising ut an early date is meditated
and Lord Duiferein has telegraphed home
for reinforcements IN order to suppress
them. The organization is composed OF
fanatical disciples of Ram.Singh. Sikh
reformer who began to preach his doc
trines about thirty years ago. Ram-Singh
and his followers believed that the time
was near at hand for restoration of the
glories of their people in the Punjaub.
Tho sacred writings of the Slkhs contain
passages that are regarded as prophetic
utterances of their future greatness. The
fall of the Mogul empire and the sacking
Of Delhi are believed by the Kukss to be
tho fuliillment of part OF the prophecy
and the accomplishment of the remain
der is believed to be delayed only by the
sims and pcrversions Of the present gen.
GRAFTON. When Ram,Singh was at the
height Of his influence II was believed
that no had over hundred thousand fol.
lowers ready to oboy his orders with un-
hesitstins xlacrity,
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28

THE lop.slded list OF the 100 socalled
most influential dailies in America which
has recently appeared in the New York
Swn receives merited structure at the
hands Of the Kansas City Times. Our
Kansas City cotemporary calls attention
to the near-sighted selection which omits
some of the most prominent and widely
known dallies in the west, and includes
picayune sheets that are scarcely known
ana read outside of the New England
villages in which they are printed. In
view Of the fact that our Kansas City
contemporary is ranked on tho Suns list
among the most influential of Americas
dailies, its criticism can be considered as
unbiased.
As n matter of fact, tho mske.up of
Of the Sans list exhibits lamentable
ignorance of the relative prominence of
leading American newspapers. One
third of the number quoted as great
dailics are secondrate and super
annuated sheets that were prominent
twenty years ago. but have dropped
way behind in the race for leadership.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28

commissioner by President Grant. His
collection Of fish took tho first prize at
the exhibition in Berlin in $780,
Professor Baird was both teacher
and student, being always ready to I'M
part information and never too old or
wise to learn. In his personal relations
he was one Of the most genial OF men, and
a charming convetsationalist.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
A Formidable Third Party.

tHICUUU ITIDUNc.
Although confined to the cities the united
labor combination Is by all odds the most
formidable third party in New York. Its
field Is narrow and II cannot possibly become
q national party. but IL 1t retains its hold on
the wage-working class Of New York City
1t may exert a controlling influence OH the
presidential election of 1883, since It's recruits
number at least two democrats to one re-
publican.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
THE DAILY BEE

GEO. Is. TZsCHUCK.
:. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence
this 9th day of August, A. ID. 1887.
N. p. FEIr.
fSEAL.l Notary Public.
State of Nebraska, 9,
Douglas County. %
Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn,
deposes and says that he Is secretary of The
Bee Publishing company, that the actual
average daily circulation OF the Daily Bee for
the month OF August, 1885, Il, 464 copies: for
September 1856, 1850 copies; for October,
1856, 1850 copies for November, 1886, l3,3is
copies; for December, 1885, 1927 copies; for
1887, IA, 1876 copies; for March. 1887, l4,4O0
copies; for April, 1887. 1876 copies; for May,
1887, 1897 copies; for June 1887, ID, lat
copies; for July, 1887, 14.O93 copies.
GEO. b. TZsCHUcK.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
11th day OF August, A. d., 1887.
ISEAL. N. +. FELL Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
ScDtember.

SoOComOer.
Frank Dempster Sherman. in So. Nicholas
Here's a lyric for September,
Best of all months to remember,
Month when summer breezes tell
What has happened wood and dell,
or the Joy tho year has brought
And the changes she has wrought.
She has turned the verdure red,
In the blue sky over head
She the harvest-mOon has hung
Like silver boat among
Shoals of stars-bright jewels set
In the earth's blue cOrOnet.
She mas brought the orchards fruit
10 repay the robins flute
Which has gladdened half the year
With . music liquid clear;
And she makes the meadow grass
Catch the sunbeams as they pass,
Till the autumn's floor Is rolled
With fragrant cloth of gold.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28

Our Charitable visitors are beginning
TO realize that the representative OF the
board of trade at their reception did not
exaggerate IN the least about the magni-
tude of Omaha's commercial and indus
trial activity. Before they leave tho city
they may discover that the statements
made concerning Omaha's growth will,
II anything. fall short of the actual facts
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28

Now for the Grand Army reunion and
Omaha fair! Omaha is preparing to put
on her gala dress, and the multitude that
are coming to this city for the first time
will be treated to a genuine surprise.
Omaha never does things by halves.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28

"WE do like enterprise. An ever.
enterprising local cotemporary serves no.
tice on its patrons, and tho people of
America generally, that 1t has secured
the exclusive right to an american Pen
man." and everybody is warned not to
iufringe on its monopoly. We don't be-
lieve anybody will be foolish enough to
attcmpt such proftless literary lar
ceny,
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28

eye country. he pants for new soils u
conquer. and has fixed the cold and fishy
eye of ambition upon the small but modest
state of New York. Illinois didn't pan ous
very well. so eastward The star Of Sherman
taxes its way.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
A Shameful Equalization.

MthWUpds 1ftDuN.
In It's editorial comments on the Chats
worth horror, the London Daily News says: !:
ut is sufficiently startling to learn that rail-
way bridges are still made of wood" Yes,
they are on many American roads but the
hearts OF the managers are made of flint, so
that things are equalized after all.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
Withdraw the Charge.

Now that President Cleveland, Governor
Hill and other prominent democrats are Of
fering prizes to be competed for at rural
baby show 1t is tins for the opposition or
gans to stop charging them with being hos
tile to the infant industries of the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
1t Would BE a Vain Attempt.

NtW OTEUTIS IWtIDEUts
Science is trying to find out how quick a
man can wink. The instantaneous phOtog
rapher should try to catch the eye of Con-
necticut deacon in front Of a temperance
soda fountain.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
His Heart Not on HIS Sleeve.


Senator Allison is wiser in his generation
than Sen ator Sherman. lie will not wear
his heart upon his sleeve for davis to peck at,
lie had friends in the Iowa convention who
would gladly promote his ambition to stand
as a presidential candidate, but he declined
to have their strength tested.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
A Strong Argument.

QuulCU IU) HcfdIu.
The ever-increasiug surplus, the terror of
the business men of the country, has made
more tariff reformers than has all the argu-
ment of the free-traders.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28

OMAHA streets are badly torn up al.
ready. Don't, II you please. make the
nuisance any worse just now when so
many strangers are here and thousands
more are expected
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
A Marvellous Transformation.
pitIub,i,u rbrnp isIs

"When you consider what Ives was six
years ago. it is sincomprehensble that he should
have become so fast" remarked the snake
editor. "What was hep, asked the horse
editor. "a messenger boy"
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
A Republican Axiom.

It Is an axiom of republican government
that the people should be taxed no more nor
farther than is necessary for a proper and
economical carrying on of the affairs of tho
nation.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
A Cross. Eyed Policy insufficient.

fhhdde'phid Herald.
The question of reducing taxation has
been forced upon the country bv the danger
OF treasury enlargement Money. Is piing
up In the government strong.boxes that Is
needed in the channels OF trade. Democracy
cannot meet this issue by declaration
which one man will understand In one way
and another man in another,
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28

The Siamese prince drank while in New
York compound OF beer and lemonade,
which the compounder behind the bae
declared to be the ''rankcst" in .bis ex'
pcrience.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28

The recent rains have washed Of rinch
Of the tar and sand that was used to plug
up the cracks in the new Fifth avenue
pavement IN New York, and in gulies
OF the cutters there are now little pockets
of sandy tar that look as If small gas
factory had passed that way.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-11-05

any trouble WIN Jlm."
And the guess was as correct as his
guesses usually were.
Tho night wore away without any dis
turbance to create alarm. Josiah had taken
pains to see that the locks, doors and bars
were oil right, and he slept as soundly as q
soldier. Each man had been locked iI his
cell, and the corridor door was mountain
in the path Of any attempted escape
''Josiah," said Prudence, as we were
seated at breakfast, ''did you hear any noise
during the nightl'
'Not 80 much as the sigh of mouse" re-
piled Josiah. at was remarkably still
night"
swell, JOSIAH" continued my grand
mother, ~ heard noises, and plenty Of
them. There was some deviltry going on
among the prisoners. l heard grating
sound as II they were fling Off the bars.
want to go down with you and see what it
was"
My grandfather made no objections,
knowing that words could not alter tho de-
cision, and 80 after breakfast we passed
through into the main hall. Just as Josiah
was about to open the corridor door, there
was q loud shouting from female occupy
ing cell upstairs, and Prudence went up
to learn the cause. She was hardly out OF
6lgnt When JOblan opencu tue uOOr una
went in. saw him feeling about his
person, heard him say "Pshaw" but did
not then know that he had forgotten his re.
volver. While remained by the door, he
won't down to cell No. -, unlocked the pad
lock, but left 1t in the staple. He then anne
along back, serving each door In the same
way. This was one OF Granger's ideas, he
letting out the occupant of cell No. l, and
making him let out the rest Before
the second man was out, the turn
key would be outside the hall door.
Well, Josiah pulled the paddock from
the staple Of No. l, threw open the door,
and the next moment was knocked clear
across the corridor, while all the prisoners
set up yelling and shouting. Had grand
father been armed, he would have been all
right, a. the prisoner waited to open the
next cell before further attack, He then
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-11-05
The First Lightning Rod.

II we are to believe an Austrian
paper, the first lightning rod was not
constructed by Franklin. but by
monk of Seuftenberg, in Bohemia.
named Prohop Diwisch, who installed
an apparatus the 18th of June, 1854, in
the garden of the curate of Prenditz
(Moravia). The apparatus was COM
posed of pole surmounted by an iron
rod supporting twelve curved-up
branches, ana terminating in az many
metallic boxes, filed with iron ore and
closed by lockwood cover, traversed
by twenty-seven sharp iron points,
which plunged at their base in the ore.
All the system was united to the earth
by large chain. The enemies Of
Diwisch, jealous of his success at tho
court of Vienna, excited the peasants
of the locality against him, and under
the pretext that his lightning rod was
the cause Of the great drought, they
made him take down the lightning rod
which he had utilized for six years.
What is most curious is the form of this
first lightning rod, which was of multi
pie points like the one which M. Melseu
afterward invented. Boston Budget.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-11-05
puNcENT PARAGRAPHS.

Let honor be to us as strong an
obligation as necessity is to Others
Pliny.
Mature Is frank and will allow no
man to abuse himself without giving
him a hint of it.
"A feud is about the most unproft-
able thing any community ever in.
dulged in.-Jacksonuitle Times Union.
The biggest sponges in the world
are found occupying thrones and free
lunch tables.-7eras SJtings.
Science weeps over the bug that is
never hatched as the lover mourns over
the letter that never came.-M o. Pic
ayune.
IL have learned to seek my happi-
ness by limiting my desires. rather than
in attempting to satisfy them. John
Stuart MI.
No, my son, a mouse does not grow
into rat any more than q dude ever
becomes man. Quite different race
IN either case. c.-Boston Transcript.
What is the difference between .
fool and wise manp The fool is ignor-
ant and don't know it; the wise man 10
ignorant and does know it.
The price of monkeys. to go with
grinders is higher than for years
before. The attempt to work in dudes
was failure. They didn't know enough.
Detroit Free Press
The man who borrows S. from you
| and neglects to return it is often thought
to have poor memory, when, in fact,
the man is poor and not the memory
Yonkers Statesman.
Il consider that you kan tell the diff
ference between well and ill-bred folks
by the way they quarrel. In a difference,
the former always grow more, and the
latter less, pcrlte.
| -"What makes woman laughp"
asks an exchange. We don't know, un-
less it is that her next door neighbor has
said something mean about the people
across the street.-The Earth.
This world. my son. Is not without
its trials and tribulations, but there is
no necessity of your being utterly dis
hoartened so long as you have only
others misfortunes to feel and Others
foolshness to criticise. Tran
script.
Novelty goods-all the rage"
advertises an uptown tailor. and, by
way of explanation, we would like to
state that the rage doesn't come in
until you find the novelty wearing off
in spots after exactly one weeks SER
vice. Washington Critic.
Somebody says that an African
belle dresses her hair only once in four
months. AS it is probably all her own.
of course she can do rs she likes with
it, but it is different with the bellies of
the more civilized nations. .-LoWeU Cit-
izen.
When you would wish to make a
man feel really happy. my son, praise
him for some quality which he does not
possess. We have seen the face of a
strictly moral man glow with unaccus-
toned pride upon being accused of a
wickedness which he never so much as
dreamed of, and we have known a
bad man made happy, just before cleo
ton, by being spoken of as the epitome
of all the human virtues. If you
would make friends. compliment per-
sons for what they are not, not for what
they are,